Archive for March, 2009
The good news first, the Philippines set a record for the most cities participated on the Earth Hour 2009, an estimated 10 Million Filipinos in 650 cities/municipalities around the nation switched of their lights from 8:30-9:30PM last Saturday, March 28, 2009. According to Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes, almost 500MW of power was saved during [...]
March 31st, 2009 | Posted in Daily Rants, Pilipinas, WTF | 1 Comment
The Aliwan Fiesta is just around the corner, they are on their 7th year now. This will be my 4th time to shoot, I first covered the event in 2005 using my Nikon F55 film camera (unfortunately, I can’t find the film now), then in 2007 and last year.
It was a wet Aliwan fiesta [...]
March 27th, 2009 | Posted in Events, Pilipinas | 3 Comments
What’s an hour without light will be? Will it be too much to sacrifice for the earth to survive?
On Saturday, March 28, 2009, let us turn off the lights for 60 minutes, from 8:30 – 9:30PM. The earth hour in 2007 in Sydney , Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off [...]
March 24th, 2009 | Posted in Daily Rants, Personal | 3 Comments
I just came from The Best of i-Witness Vol. 4 DVD Launch at the PowerBooks at SM Megamall. The team is on its 10th year and a lot of activities are lined up, they mentioned that there will be a docufest, a documentary making contest and a lot more.
All of the 4 [...]
March 21st, 2009 | Posted in Daily Rants, Personal, Showbiz & Entertainment | No Comments
It was the highly controversial Subic Rape Case, Nicole (not her real name) was allegedly raped by US serviceman Lance Corporal Daniel Smith just before midnight of November 1, 2005.
The case tested the integrity of the Philippine legal system, protests roared against the Visiting Forces Agreement between the Philippines and the United States of America. [...]
March 18th, 2009 | Posted in Daily Rants, WTF | 2 Comments
Two of my nephews and a niece were born in the month of March and we held a small celebration and thanksgiving party for them yesterday.
March 15th, 2009 | Posted in Events, Personal | 1 Comment
To tell you frankly, I don’t think I would ever trust a pre-need company again, our family has been victimized several times, hard earned money that gone to waste (or maybe not, maybe to the pockets of big time robbers). These are not small pre-need companies, these are big time educational and pension plan [...]
March 14th, 2009 | Posted in Money Matters, Politics & Economy, WTF | 1 Comment
Last month I listed the things that I wanna do and that includes designing my own theme, here’s what I’ve accomplished so far.
March 12th, 2009 | Posted in Daily Rants, Personal, Site Update | 2 Comments
Ooops! I’m not leaving yet, what I mean is this blog, this blog needs a new home (a new server).
This blog has been in existence for almost 5 years now, from my previous domain (http://southpawlife.com) which lived for almost 2 years, my blogging journey is being continued on this blog.
The hosting of this blog will [...]
March 11th, 2009 | Posted in Site Update | No Comments
Summer is definitely here, I felt uncomfortable the whole day, it was hot today compared days that passed. I checked on my Google Sidebar to check the temperature and it was hot at 33°c. The data on the sidebar is being supplied by Google from the nearest weather monitoring center (either the Philippine [...]
March 5th, 2009 | Posted in Daily Rants, Personal, Talk About the Weather, WTF | 5 Comments